Reply #7: I don't "hate" Rahm. It is well known that he and Dean are enemies of a sort. [View All]

[Honeycombe8]

If you don't know that, you don't know much.

Dean has become proactive and an authoritative voice on the public option. Ergo...Rahm did, and will continue to, strike the opposite message. Unless it becomes law, in which case Rahm will say he always said it was a strong option and he advised Obama to that effect.

Dean recommended and employed a 50-state strategy to win the last presidential election (for the first time ever for the Dems, I believe). It was successful. Ta-da! So of course Rahm was applauded and took credit for Rahm's supposed idea to implement a 50-state strategy. (Dean was then quietly removed from his chairmanship, while Rahm was installed as chief of staff.)

I'm no big Dean fan. But I follow this stuff quite a lot, and I know what I see and hear.

Dean says P.O. is necessary. So Rahm will DEFINITELY not be in Dean's corner or appear to support a Dean idea in any way. That's the way their relationship works.

Rahm was brought into the W.H., I believe, to get Congress to support Obama's ideas and bills and plans. But...where's the beef?